From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP v 2.95 - problem
Date:	6 Apr 2001 16:49:52 GMT
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robert DOT thompson2 AT firstunion DOT com wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed djgpp 2.95 on a WinNT v 4.0 with service
> pack 5. a standard install with djgpp in a directory on d:\ . I have
> written some C programs in another direcory called d:\devsoft\cprograms. I
> have the environment variables and path statements pointing to the correct
> place. From the d:\devsoft\cprograms directory I type in the followng:

> D:\devsoft\CPROJE~1>gcc [...] d:/devsoft/CProjects/disc_intrate_000.c
             ^^^^^^^^

See that? The short name with the "numeric tail"? That's your problem.

NT doesn't let DOS programs access files by their long filenames. Had you 
written

	gcc -v disc_in~1.c

or something like that, it might have worked.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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